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ratcheer

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Registered: 2011-10-09

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[Solved] Questions about /etc/group and /etc/gshadow

This morning, package filesystem was upgraded to 2015.02-1 and pacnew files were created for /etc/group and /etc/gshadow. I ran diff against my current files, and the differences seem very minor, to me. I need some guidance to understand whether I should implement the pacnew changes.

The only significant difference I see in the group file is that in my original version, my username is added to the wheel group. This seems correct, to me.

For gshadow, there is the same difference for wheel. However, there are several entries where my original entry contains an exclamation point, but the new version does not. For example:

< proc:!::
> proc:::

If I run man /etc/gshadow, it does not give me what I understand as a man page, and gives me what appears to be a listing of the stuff in my /etc/gshadow file, instead. Which does not help me.

So, like I say, I need some guidance on dealing with these pacnew files.

Tim

PS - I now see that "man gshadow" gives me an actual man page. Sorry. I am currently studying it.

Last edited by ratcheer (2015-02-24 21:37:52)

Serge2702

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From: México City

Registered: 2014-01-14

Posts: 73

Re: [Solved] Questions about /etc/group and /etc/gshadow

Apparently you can delete them: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=184215

utopyand

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Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 33

Re: [Solved] Questions about /etc/group and /etc/gshadow

After the update to filesystem 2015.02-1 some voices in /etc/gshadow were changed (in the pacnew file) from

systemd-journal-gateway:!::
systemd-timesync:!::
systemd-network:!::
systemd-bus-proxy:!::
systemd-resolve:!::

to

systemd-journal-gateway:::
systemd-timesync:::
systemd-network:::
systemd-bus-proxy:::
systemd-resolve:::

What's the change? Before they had a locked password (the ! sign) and now they haven't?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Questions about /etc/group and /etc/gshadow

There's already https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=194095

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,424

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Re: [Solved] Questions about /etc/group and /etc/gshadow

Merging...

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ratcheer

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 912

Re: [Solved] Questions about /etc/group and /etc/gshadow

Apparently you can delete them: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=184215

Thanks. My searches turned up so many hits, I guess I did not look that far back in the list.

Tim